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Adding a course

When is the add deadline?

The Faculty of Mathematics permits students to add a course up to the end of the first two weeks of a term. The course add deadline for each term is available under important dates. To add a course after the deadline, you will need to submit a petition form to the Mathematics Standings and Promotions Committee (S&P) with written consent of the instructor.

Changing ('swapping') sections of a course is considered an add. Therefore, the add deadline applies.

Online Learning courses can be taken while a student is on-campus and on a work term. Co-op students on a work term are limited to one course (0.5 units), unless they have written support from their employer to take two courses (one unit).

Wilfrid Laurier University (Laurier) provides spaces in a number of courses for University of Waterloo students. These courses appear on Waterloo's Schedule of Classes. It is also possible to enrol in other Laurier courses by cross-registration. Laurier's School of Business and Economics (SBE) provides a limited number of spaces in selected sections of various Business (BUS) courses for Waterloo students each term.

For more information about adding courses, please see Faculty regulations in the Undergraduate Studies Academic Calendar.

How do I enrol in six courses?

Students who have a cumulative average of 80% or more and are in Excellent standing have a maximum course load of 3.0 units.

Honours co-op students should not enrol in six courses with a view to graduating in fewer than eight terms, because co-op students must complete at least eight full-time terms to graduate with an honours degree.

I would like to repeat a course I have already passed.

Both attempts and their marks earned will appear on your transcript. The second attempt will count as an official course attempt but will not count as a credit towards your degree. (This is relevant because it is a consequence of the Mathematics faculty's "maximum course attempt" policy that a student's "total unit value of failed courses, Withdraws/Failures (WFs) and repetitions of passed courses cannot exceed five units.") Any WDs (Withdrew after the drop deadline, no credit granted) accumulated prior to fall 2017 will count as a course attempt. The marks for both course attempts will be calculated into cumulative averages.